Planet Jackson Hole 6.21.17

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22 CULTURE KLASH

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THIS WEEK

JUNE 21-27, 2017

By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey Summer began here in Jackson, officially, at 10:24 p.m. on Tuesday June 20th, the official start time determined by the Summer Solstice. That is, the exact time the sun is over the Tropic of Cancer, at 23.5 degrees North Latitude. That would be perfect timing for holding a Solstice party, unfortunately, it is now at least a day late getting that idea to you. You can still party on and enjoy the longest days of the year this week.

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Average high temperatures this week in Jackson are comfortably in the mid 70’s, not too hot, not too cool. We’ll experience more above average temperatures this week, making up for some of those well below average temperature days over the last week or so.

Temps getting into the eighties in the afternoons this time of year may seem warm, but not like it was in 1988, when we had highs in the 90’s during this week. Record high was 95-degrees on June 26th, 1988.

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THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.63 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 4. inches (1967) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 0.1 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 5 inches (1973)

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Jim has been forecasting the weather here for more than 20 years. You can find more Jackson Hole Weather information at www.mountainweather.com

Average low temperatures this week are near 40-degrees, and the risk of below freezing temperatures is pretty much in the rearview mirror with the coming of the Summer Solstice. Temps dipping below 32-degrees are not likely for us here this week. However, our record low temperature during this week is 22-degrees. That freak occurrence of coldness happened back on June 25th, 1953.

More recently, on June 23rd, 2013 we dipped down to 28-degrees.

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GUEST OPINION Righting Ancient Wrongs Why Chief Washakie should have a place in town hall over Trump and Pence.

BY ALEXANDRA FULLER

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am an immigrant from Zimbabwe.

When I became a US citizen in the fall of 2000, the man who swore us motley crew of new Americans into this country—the dentist in Kemmerer, Wyoming,—ack nowledged t hat although in his opinion the US was the greatest nation on earth, it was we, the fresh waves of immigrants who arrive annually, who give this nation its immune system.

“Our gift to you is freedom. Your gift to us is your hunger. Keep your hunger,” he told us on that incredible day.

“Whatever hunger for freedom it was that brought you here—a search for political freedom, the freedom to make a living, the freedom to worship as you so wish or the freedom to speak your mind—don’t ever let anyone take that hunger from you because that hunger will lead all of us to freedom.”

From the age of 2 to 18, I lived under four different dictatorships in countries in southern and central Africa and on the literal front lines of the wars and genocides those dictatorships precipitated. The four dictators differed in their particulars. Two were right wing and underwritten by the racial capitalism of South Africa; two were left-wing and supported by China and Russia. But what they shared was a cult of personality and a rabid insistence that their portrait hang everywhere you look, from schools to airports to town halls to clinics. In some cases, the cult of personality reached such a pitch that it was a crime punishable by imprisonment to tamper with a president’s portrait even if that portrait was on the page of a newspaper.

Thank God, this is not that nation.

Our mayor, Pete Muldoon, has taken a courageous stand for freedom that I as an immigrant from countries ruined by dictatorships can applaud. His stand against federal overreach bolsters our freedoms, not diminishes it. This is a return to local power in its most organic form. It is also—let’s not pretend otherwise—a stand against a president who ran on a platform of outright xenophobia, misogyny and a deep disrespect for our immigrant population.

For those who argue that the removal of President Trump’s and VicePresident Pence’s portrait will have an economic impact on this town’s tourism dollars, that argument corroborates my belief that we blindly exist in a system of unapologetic racial capitalism. That

perspective assumes all tourist dollars are white, and that whites will be upset by the removal of the portrait of a president who has unapologetically privileged white, male power.

Are we really afraid that white tourists will spend their money in a white supremacist theme park in Idaho just because we took down Trump’s portrait from the town hall in Jackson Hole, Wyoming?

At no other time—from the management of wolves to a woman’s right to an abortion—has Wyoming’s right wing taken such a pro-federal stand. At no other time have our state’s Republicans gotten so exercised about the potential loss of federal dollars. (I thought my august colleagues on the right were against federal dollars and federal government overreach?) Chief Washakie’s as old a local as you can get. And he’s purely bi-partisan—he died before Native Americans were officially made citizens of the US. But for those who are feeling their whiteness in attack, it should be noted that against his own people’s best interest, Chief Washakie was, very notably, a friend to the white settler.

It is an irony unknown by most white Americans that our Native American brothers and sisters have fought with distinction in every war for the last 200 years on the side of the US military and in higher numbers per demographic than any other ethnic group in the nation, though more than 500 treaties between the US government and sovereign native nations remain broken.

SINGLE-TRACK MIND Wow, nothing like ringing in summer with perfect trails and temps. Last week’s rains brought hero dirt and the flowers to match. Get out on your own or take part in these upcoming events: Come celebrate the summer solstice with an informal ride to the top of Snow King on Wednesday, June 21. Meet at the Cache Creek parking lot at 8 p.m., ride up Ferrins to the top of Snow King, catch the sunset then ride down Josie’s Ridge to Sink or Swim under the last light of the longest day of the year.

Then two totally different events are happening on Saturday, June 24. Habitat Bikes is sponsoring a Teton Freedom Riders Pass Bash on Teton Pass. They will be offering free shuttles from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

This is perfect timing since Fuzzy Bunny, Jimmy’s Mom, Parallel, Powerline and Candyland are all open. Phillips Ridge and Canyon are open if you have a sense of adventure

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and whimsy.

The other event on Saturday is the Around the Rock ride sponsored by Fitzgerald’s Bikes. This is a paved/dirt road loop from Victor toward Ashton to Flagg Ranch to Jackson, over the pass back to Victor. Contact Fitzy’s for more information.

Next Wednesday, Juwne 28, JHCycling.org presents the umpteenth annual Cache Creek MTB race. This begins at Mike Yokel Park and finishes at the Nelson Trailhead utilizing Hagen and Putt Putt trails. It’s about 12 miles and there will again be three timed enduro stages so you can focus on the XC or the enduro. Either way, it’s a classic that’s not to be missed. Check JHCycling.org for more information and to register.

Lastly, as the sight lines decrease with growing vegetation, remember to watch your speed on blind corners. And don’t make shortcuts! – Cary Smith

Chief Washakie

They know what active service is. That’s more than can be said for all the presidents of this nation since George H. W. Bush.

By choosing Chief Washakie’s portrait for our town hall, we recognize and begin to redress an ancient wrong.

We also take a stand against federal overreach and the unfortunate impression that we are a white-friendly tourist destination, unfriendly to people of color. PJH

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GUEST OPINION Jackson Hole Divided Portraitgate may be over but partisan politics are here to stay.

BY OLAUS LINN @olauslinn

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“The council’s decision seems like risk y and short-sighted pandering to a small subset of the population that may cause us further damage down the line.”

The council’s decision seems like risky and short-sighted pandering to a small subset of the population that may cause us further damage down the line.

Indeed, I think we’ll be talking about the politics of this for a long time.

Muldoon was elected after running on a progressive platform that included a promise not to do business as usual.

He was within his traditional rights to make decorating decisions at town hall. The council chose to put the views of a vocal minority over the will of the people.

The council’s action, though intended to bring about a return to non-partisan town politics, was instead inherently partisan. The way each candidate voted and expressed their views on this matter will be brought back up in the next election cycle, particularly since it will be partly a referendum on whether the portraits stay up.

There will be no more hiding behind the veil of non-partisanship for this council or any future councils; you’re either on one side or the other, since no real compromise was struck. And that’s ultimately what’s so sad about the whole business—there was no attempt to back the mayor and condemn the ridiculous threats and intimidation while leaving room for the council to make changes in the future, or to just send the whole question out to the actual voters as a referendum.

The council decided they knew better, and in the process embroiled themselves in this mess for good.

I stood at the meeting to make my views known to the council, and I appreciated the opportunity to do that.

I do hope this can be brought to a close and we can all move on.

But in the hours after the meeting, as I read the cascade of Facebook comments, it struck me: This was never really about pictures. This was about a divided nation struggling with the greatest political upheaval in a generation.

Like it or not, Jackson Hole has a voice in that larger national discourse.

What we do in these days, the issues we tackle, and the way we conduct our local politics will echo on down through the next generation of folks to call this valley home.

Monday evening may have represented a victory for some, but in the end I think we all lost a little bit of what makes this place special. I hope we can get it back. PJH

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those who would boss us around that Jackson’s cooperation can be forced by that combination, and I am deeply saddened to imagine what will happen when we must take a strong stand for something we actually deem vital.

One of the stated goals of the council’s action was to undo the economic damage, whatever that was. Unfortunately, there is no good way to let those angry folks know that we’ve bowed to their wishes without giving the whole story another ride on the old national media train, and this time the negative reaction may be bigger. We will now, in the view of some, be the town that gave in to the right-wing.

Trump’s approval rating is hovering around a dismal 38 percent nationally.

Internationally he is even more widely disliked. These are the people who plan vacations to Yellowstone and Grand Teton, who come here and spend their money with us.

According to the Office of Tourism, Colorado and California were the top states our visitors came from in 2016. Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles were our top target markets for our winter marketing campaign.

Yellowstone, Jackson, and Grand Teton were the top three destinations for all Wyoming visitors in 2015.

Tourism is a 3.2 billion-dollar industry in this state and provides 32,000 jobs. Jackson Hole is at the heart of that and we should be leading the charge to be open, welcoming, and inclusive.

We need to take strong stands to support our public lands and our environment, and be leaders by example on those issues in Wyoming. We must stand behind the workers who make this place run. These issues may bring us into conflict with the ideology of the rest of the state, and other parts of the country. We will pay a price for our local politics simply because pleasing everyone is impossible.

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n Monday, the Jackson Town Council took up the issue of the decoration of town hall.

Although it was not on the agenda, two motions were put forth for immediate consideration. The first would make all future interior decorating decisions the explicit responsibility of the full council, and the second directed that there should be portraits up of the U.S. president and vice president, along with the governor of Wyoming.

The overflowing crowd made impassioned pleas on both sides. The room seemed evenly split for and against the motions. Several council members read prepared remarks and then they voted, passing both. The portraits of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence would go back up on the wall in town hall, effective immediately.

Within a couple hours one local paper had published the piece “Trump fracas resolved,” which tied a neat little bow on the whole affair. Back to business as usual: arguing about housing, transportation, and development, right?

Sadly, I think the actions of the Jackson Town Council, by giving in to outside pressure and overriding the democratically elected mayor, will have the opposite effect. We are now destined to talk about this silly issue for years to come. The consequences of this action may, indeed, be far-reaching and long-term.

Jackson Hole is a unique place with a unique history. Yellowstone National Park had already been a destination for adventurous visitors for more than 40 years before the Town of Jackson was officially incorporated in 1914. Tourism has formed one of the cornerstones of our economy from the very beginning and it is responsible for much of our wealth and stability, especially relative to the boom and bust economy of the rest of Wyoming.

It has also steadily led this place to become more politically liberal as the older, more conservative generations have faded and been replaced by young folks coming here, falling in love with the valley, and staying to build their lives. This is nothing new; we have been a blue county since former President Bill Clinton won here in 1992. Hillary Clinton garnered 58 percent of the vote here, making it the only county in Wyoming that she won.

Now we have been bullied into forcing presidential portraits to be displayed by law, making us one of the first towns in the nation to do so, and our local independence and political freedom is seemingly in jeopardy.

I counted myself originally among those who didn’t give a hoot what photos were hanging where. But when the Teton County GOP decided to ignite a national firestorm with the issue to score political points and some of our local media fanned the flames with breathless coverage, an avalanche of hatred and vitriol descended on us.

A Wyoming state representative from another district released a video decrying our actions and our liberal ways.

People from other parts of the country threatened to boycott; they called local businesses and random government office numbers just so they could shout at someone in Jackson Hole. The mayor received a message from a man threatening to come here and cut his throat.

So many of the enraged callers and commenters discussed the lack of respect being shown, all while showing a complete disregard for respecting elected officials themselves.

This was no longer an interior design fight. It had become a fight for our ability to express our will as a community.

The council, caving in to that angry and violent pressure, has now shown

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ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN

Dream Darker

OPINION

The indictment of journalist Aaron Cantú portends a grim future for the First Amendment.

BY BAYNARD WOODS @demoincrisis

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ozens of defendants, each sitting with their own lawyer, fill a Washington, DC courtroom, looking like college students wearing their nicest clothes for a job interview.

It is far more serious than that. They are all facing charges of felony rioting, conspiracy to riot and destruction of property on the morning of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, when they were scooped up en masse by police with a controversial crowd-control technique which corrals protesters in a “kettle.”

This is only one of the four groups among the 215 defendants who have been indicted on nearly identical charges. Many had to travel back to the District to be arraigned.

One man who traveled from Santa Fe is sitting with his lawyer off to the side. He wears a black suit and has a black goatee and identifies himself as Tejano. He looks around the room like he is taking notes. Everyone else has already been arraigned before Judge Lynn Leibovitz. But this man, Aaron Cantú, wasn’t indicted until May 30, just a week before the hearing. He is a journalist, who has written about policing, propaganda, drugs, and politics for The Intercept, Al Jazeera, The Baffler, and many other publications. Reporting from the Republican National Convention on the possibility of a Trump presidency, Cantú wrote, “dream darker.”

Now, like the others being charged, he’s facing 70 years in jail.

As various protests spread through the city on the morning of the inauguration, one group used “black bloc” techniques—wearing all black and acting in concert to attack symbols of multinational capitalism in a semi-anonymous

fashion—to disrupt the spectacle of the event, breaking windows of businesses like Starbucks and Bank of America.

“Individuals participating in the Black Bloc broke the windows of a limousine parked on the north side of K Street NW, and assaulted the limousine driver as he stood near the vehicle,” the indictment reads, “as Aaron Cantu and others moved west on K Street NW.” These black blocs have received widespread media attention in America since 1999, beginning with the Battle of Seattle at the World Trade Organization summit. A black bloc action is newsworthy. And yet, according to the indictment, Cantú is being charged for moving in proximity to the group he was covering.

The indictment alleges that Cantú wore black and discarded a backpack as further evidence of his part in the conspiracy. Because members of a conspiracy to riot wore black, anyone wearing black, it seems, is a member of the conspiracy.

It is a crazy, complicated, sprawling case involving evidence from somewhere around 200 cell phones and various cameras. The discovery process will take months.

In Washington, DC, criminal cases that elsewhere would be handled by the state are prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s office—so each prosecutor here ultimately answers to the president of the United States. Although the charges were first brought by an Obama appointee, this is a perfect example of what justice may look like in the Trump era. Like the travel ban, it is a grand draconian gesture followed by a lot of confusion.

During the arraignment, prosecutor Jennifer Kerkhoff expressed concerns about finding herself in a “Brady trick

Aaron Cantu is among an increasing number of journalists who’ve become targets in the U.S.

bag,” referring to the law that requires the prosecution to turn over all relevant evidence in discovery. How does she know what material on someone else’s phone might be relevant to another’s case? And how does the prosecution protect the privacy of co-defendants with data that is not relevant?

“Can I just stop you?” Judge Leibovitz says to Kerkhoff as she talks about efficiency. “You brought charges against 215 people.” She does not have to finish.

Her look said, “so deal with it.”

Leibovitz set most of the trial dates for October 2018, so that all evidence can be properly dealt with.

“It’s concerning and confusing,” Christopher Gowen said. He is an American University law professor and partner at his own firm who was appointed to the case. “The fact that we are already here and the amount of resources being spent to get to where we are now leads me to believe we are going to have to sit through all these trials. All this taxpayer money is going to be wasted.”

Gowen says that his client, Cabal Bhatt, was charged on the basis of wearing a bandana on his face to protect himself from police pepper spray.

As the names of each of the defendants are called—Cantú and his co-defendants all plead not guilty—I think about how I was almost arrested reporting on the same events that day. I watched as the black bloc came around the corner, flanked by police. Trash cans rolled through the street. Pepper spray came out. An officer ran at me with her stick. I held up the media credentials hanging around my neck and yelled “Press!” and she went around me. I was lucky.

At the advice of his lawyers, Cantú isn’t talking to the press. I asked Julie Ann Grimm, his editor at the Santa Fe Reporter, which hired him in April, if the impending charges makes her more reluctant to assign him to certain stories.

“His arrest was scary, the threat of being imprisoned for the rest of your life for just doing your job and observing a protest is … I don’t even know how to finish that sentence,” she said over the phone. “I think Aaron is nervous about covering protests. I’m slightly nervous about sending him out to them. But we’re really not going to let this action by the federal government or by the prosecutors in Washington, DC slow him down or to put a muzzle on his voice as a journalist.”

Still, she says, he might do a couple things differently now. “He will probably try to stay very separate from the people who are a part of the news event, and he will probably wear something like a tie.”

But Grimm is quick to stress that Cantú is not the only one in this case whose rights are being violated.

“We’re all standing up for Aaron, and this affects our industry and our identity as journalists,” Grimm said. “But the larger sort of corralling, the kettling, the mass-arresting is also troubling.”

“Imagining the worst possible future your mind can conjure is an essential step to avoiding a world you do not want to live in,” Cantú wrote from the Republican National Convention.

“Things are bad, very bad, and we will fuck them up even worse if we can’t acknowledge how very bad they are.”

PJH

Wright at 150 A local place-based builder reflects.

BY TODD WILKINSON @BigArtNature

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Frank Lloyd Wright

propositions to argue for a sense of beauty in the world that was being lost every day as society and culture became more and more mechanized,” she said. “However, it’s not that Wright was a Luddite. He just didn’t think these shifts in engineering and mechanization were ends in themselves, but a means to discovering a voice that was ultimately poetic.”

Unfortunately, she noted, Wright’s fervent belief that architecture respond to and draw from nature, place and landscape is fading as architects struggle to respond to the issues of sustainability, energy use and resiliency.

“Architecture is becoming more hi-tech, highly-produced and mechanical in an attempt to care for the world,” she said. “The loss of poetry in design will, over time, prove to be a huge loss to our humanity.”

Wright the engineer, she said, never lost sight of the need for true art in architecture. “Art is necessary to make sense of the world—science alone cannot inspire empathy and transformation,” she says. “Poetics help us recognize what will be lost if we don’t pay attention. Architecture should aspire to both: the technological innovations to directly address the stress on the planet, while reaching for poetic expression and truth through the experience of being in a special place.” PJH Todd Wilkinson has been writing his award-winning column, The New West, for nearly 30 years. He is author of Grizzlies of Pilgrim Creek about famous Grizzly 399 featuring 150 pictures by renowned Jackson Hole photographer Tom Mangelsen. Autographed copies only available at mangelsen.com/ grizzly.

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Wright is most acclaimed for his organic architectural philosophy.

From his revolutionary ideals reflected in Prairie Style homes to his masterpieces Fallingwater in Pennsylvania and his grand finale, the Guggenheim Museum, in New York City, he was a brilliant creative visionary and yet, in so many ways, a controversial deeply-flawed character.

“Wright gave us the modern architectural language of ‘fitting’ and ‘belonging’ to nature and the critical understanding of how we generate unique responses to the place we live— not only aesthetically but as a broad cultural expression,” Ryker explained.

“His real gift was in calling out the need to pay attention to the places where architecture is located, to understand the qualities of the landscape, even urban environments, and work with those as a continuity of place through architecture, rather than as statements standing in stark aesthetic contrast.”

There is no doubt in her mind that Wright’s design work paralleled ideals advanced by naturalists of his era: Walt Whitman, John Muir and Henry David Thoreau to name a few.

By conscious intent, Wright drafted blueprints that magnified magic moments drawn from natural elements.

“Water, light, earth, sky, color, change in season is really what his architecture is about. The mistake is to experience his architecture merely as objects unto themselves,” Ryker says. “The real value of his architecture is the experience, to witness the architecture fade into the background while the natural world comes forward, to spend time immersed in nature’s exuberance, to treat architecture as a temple for experiencing the natural world.”

Ryker ticked off a list of noteworthy architectural firms across the country that practice Wright’s ideals, including Carney, Logan, Burke, the Jackson Hole firm behind the award-winning meditative “chapel” at the Laurence S. Rockefeller Preserve in Grand Teton National Park.

Would Wright be impressed? Ryker thinks he would, though he was notorious for finding fault in the work of his competitors.

“Wright pushed against the ‘machine age’ of minimalism in his architectural

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ho in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is advancing extraordinary architecture?

What does their work, and the people dwelling inside of it, say about human values? These are questions likely to provoke spirited discussions.

Earlier this year The Saturday Evening Post asked me to pen a cover story on the 150th birthday of Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright came into the world on June 8, 1867, and died in 1959.

He is, of course, widely regarded as the most consequential American architect of the 20th century.

My assignment, which included reading several tomes, including Wright’s own autobiography, provided a ripe opportunity to also interview a cross-section of people involved with American architecture.

One of them was Dr. Lori Ryker who, besides being a talented designer and fine artist, has taught architecture at several universities and is fast gaining a name for herself as a national thought-leader in “place-based” commercial and residential construction.

In the Greater Yellowstone region, particularly around Jackson Hole, Bozeman and Livingston, Montana, Ryker is best known for founding The Artemis Institute (artemisinstitute.org).

Its hallmark, Remote Studio, immerses students in pastoral and wild landscapes, then asks them to ponder how inserting a structure might enhance or detract from a given setting.

Ryker became fascinated by Wright as a teenager when she visited some of his early works in Chicago and later when she toured Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, the desert studio that served as Wright’s winter retreat.

It, in turn, had been inspired by his famous personal sanctum, Taliesin, in his native Wisconsin.

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THE BUZZ Post Portraitgate Community remains divided as council votes to return presidential portraits to town hall.

BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt

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f a photo hanging on a wall isn’t news, the overflowing room at last night’s town council meeting suggested otherwise. After nearly an hour of discussion and public comment, Jackson Town Council voted 3-2 to return President Donald Trump’s and Vice President Mike Pence’s portraits to town hall. Councilors also voted 4-1 to make all future decisions about public displays of art in council chambers in public session. The evening illuminated that, like the country, Jackson Hole is an increasingly divided place.

Councilor Hailey Morton Levinson introduced the motion, arguing that town council chambers, and the lobby, should be a non-partisan space. In the wake of national news coverage from left- and right-leaning media outlets and a flood of emails from people around the world, she said to leave Trump’s portrait off the wall would be seen as inherently partisan.

“I represent not only my views, but the views of different constituents in the community,” she said. “I ask ourselves and our community to make an effort to understand different viewpoints.”

Mayor Pete Muldoon took full responsibility for removing Trump’s and Pence’s portraits, and apologized for having used the opportunity to make “politically charged” statements. Removing the photos was defensible, he said, but making a unilateral decision and politicizing it was not. “Having made the indefensible error to use the occasion to make a politically charged statement to the press later, turned town hall partisan,” Muldoon admitted. “For that I take responsibility.”

Still, Muldoon said, it is a strange time to require a local municipality to display presidential portraits.

“I think we’re probably the only municipality in the state that has ever required hanging a presidential portrait,” he told PJH. “We’re setting new ground, and it’s a very curious time to do it. Of all presidents.”

It is tradition to display presidential portraits in federal buildings. Local public buildings, however, are not bound to such tradition. And even in federal buildings across the country, Trump’s portrait has sparked disdain—employees at a VA medical center in Florida took Trump’s photo down shortly after it was displayed.

Two public commenters observed there is no such photo in the county commissioner chambers, and even suspected it was removed during Barack Obama’s presidency.

“I don’t remember seeing President Trump and Putin—I mean Pence—in the county chambers,” Luther Propst said. He did, however, have a vague recollection of Obama’s portrait hanging during his presidency. “I asked five county commissioners and one former county manager,” he said. “Their impression was yes, there was.”

But it disappeared sometime during Obama’s presidency, when County Commissioner Paul Vogelheim, who launched the petition to return Trump’s portrait to town hall, was serving as commissioner.

“I’m blown away by what I can only interpret as unbelievable hypocrisy,” Propst said.

Teton County Democrats Vice-Chair Michael Yin echoed Propst’s concerns and reminded councilors that there is no presidential portrait displayed in the Capitol building in Cheyenne. There isn’t even a portrait of the governor. “The GOP doesn’t seem to have any issue with that either,” Yin said. “It’s not a tradition, and it was not voted in by resolution. It was exactly like the current decision: an interior decorating one.”

Tote Turner of the Teton County Republican Party said that Muldoon’s decision to remove the portrait contradicts community values. “Jackson is celebrated for its beauty, character and openness,” he said. “The recent decision to remove the photos … sends a very different message, not only to valley residents but to the country and the world.”

Indeed, Teton County and its residents live in a global community—which is precisely why they should stand by Muldoon’s decision, some said. It’s about the message we send to the rest of the world, they argued, and whom we invite into, or exclude from, our community by endorsing such a divisive president.

Anne Marie Wells asked that the council focus specifically on the current president. Presidential portraits, she argued, are more than decoration. They are symbolic—of tradition, of government

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overreach, of defiance. “I come to my own symbolism,” she said. “For me, the photograph is symbolic of the blind respect and honor demanded for a man whose only merit of such is that he holds a high political office.” The president, Wells said, not only admitted to “touching the genitalia of individuals against their will,” he also bragged about it.

She noted that Trump also admitted to using his celebrity status to coerce women into submitting to him sexually. “The president has had so many other assault allegations levied against him, there is an entire Wikipedia page dedicated solely to documenting these numerous allegations of sexual misconduct.”

“Those fighting to have the photograph reinstalled with full knowledge of the allegations against this man,” she continued, “are sending a very clear message that they do not know what it feels like to be forced to satisfy someone else’s desire for power with their body, that sexual assault is not abhorrent enough to merit displacement of a photograph, and that a self-admitted sexual assailant is deserving of a symbolic place of reverence because his political title is high enough.”

Councilman Jim Stanford tried to shoulder some of the blame for the decorative change. He was the one to suggest replacing Trump’s portrait with Chief Washakie, he said.

“I first brought it up last year, when President Obama was still in office.” The only tradition the town hall really upholds, he said, “is displayed on the walls behind you.” Stanford gestured to the 22 portraits of mayors past on the back wall in council chambers.

His was a “sincere desire that town hall be neutral. That we come and talk about local issues, and not be confronted right here with national partisan politics … Leave town hall as a neutral place, and honor those who have served.”

But Muldoon took the blame back. “The buck starts with me,” he said. Throughout the meeting and despite his apology, Muldoon did not waiver on his position.

Voting to display Trump’s portrait now, he said, sends a message that he succumbed to bullying and intimidation.

“I’m concerned that the message we’re sending is, you should bully Jackson, threaten to murder its mayor, because it works.” One person, Muldoon explained, threatened to come to Jackson and slit the mayor’s throat. “I feel like I’ve been given an inkling of what it’s like to be a woman, a person of color, LGBTQ … it’s bullying, pure and simple. It’s not designed to convince, it’s designed to intimidate.”

Councilor Don Frank also defended Muldoon, but still voted to have Trump’s picture returned. He called Muldoon’s decision a “credible argument handled in a less-than-optimal way.”

“I know the mayor we have right now is a man of conscious and virtue,” Frank said. “He has profound beliefs, and the courage to express them.” But, he continued, “Understanding is not always agreeing.”

He emphasized that he is not swayed or impressed by “profanity, tempered threats or mean-spirited ranting. That’s not how civil societies conduct civil conversations.” His vote to reinstate the portraits, he said, is a call for unity, “irrespective of party.”

Muldoon suggested an amendment to Morton-Levinson’s motion: to hang Trump’s portrait alongside a copy of the first page of the constitution, and pictures of the leaders of the other two government branches—and Chief Washakie. Council members declined the amendment.

“I’m not necessarily opposed,” MortonLevinson said. “I’d like to discuss it at a later date.” PJH

THE BUZZ 2 Housing Neutrality Some say forget the emotions, just give us the numbers.

BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt

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Housing, by the numbers

housing cannot be the only solution.

“It’s not a simple thing to find the appropriate property, available funding, realize and build housing in a market as dynamic and aggressive as ours is,” Frank said. “We have to use a variety of tools, and have a willingness to experiment. We need to use private capital if it’s available and suitable … move the build risk off of the public.” Such was Frank’s rationale for supporting the LDR text amendment exempting new apartment buildings from affordable housing standards: to incentivize the private sector to step in and add more units, another equation of supply and demand.

One of the biggest conundrums the Nexus Study presents, however, is that all developments—even those that create housing units—also create a need for more housing. The study identifies three types of labor needs for residential development: construction, operation and maintenance post-construction, and critical service providers. For example, the study calculated that a subdivision of 10 3,000-square-foot single-family homes occupied by Jackson residents creates a need for less than one unit of workforce housing. Based on estimated salaries for construction workers and post-construction laborers, workers would need a $108,000 subsidy to afford a home. Land Development Regulations mandate that at least 25 percent of all new developments be affordable. But each new development, Siegfried says, encourages even more growth and invites new members of the workforce into town.

Siegfried’s own neighborhood, Melody Ranch, “at the end of the day invited more workers than it housed,” he said. “But it’s the best thing that ever

happened to me and 75 other families, so that’s really important to realize.”

Emotions and action There is merit to Siegfried’s desire for unbiased, unemotional conversations about housing, Shelter JH chair Mary Erickson said. But as a local housing advocate, she has also seen the change that emotional arguments can make. Erickson, who spoke in favor of Sagebrush Apartments at Monday’s town council meeting, recalled Shelter JH’s inaugural 2015 march to town hall that brought about 100 residents to town chambers. “I do feel like it changed the conversation,” she said.

“It changed some of the tenor of the conversation—put a sense of urgency around it.”

But sometimes, she said, “You do have to get down to business.”

Perhaps the most effective way to effect change, she suggested, is finding a balance between pathos and reason.

“Maybe the trick is figuring out when is the right time [for emotions versus numbers],” she said.

One thing Erickson is sure of is that these conversations are ever-evolving, and not always clear. “People take for granted that we’re all on the same page, when we’re obviously not,” she said. “It still feels like we’re not all necessarily in agreement about what we’re trying to accomplish.”

Keeping that 65 percent target in sight, Siegfried said, is the simplest way to bring the conversation together. “I think I’m on an island here— I’m not on either side, I’m just about having more fact-based conversations about the ramifications of our decisions,” he said. “I really believe in the 65 percent.”

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Siegfried extols the 65 percent housing goal, which was put forth in the 2015 Housing Action Plan and the 2012 Jackson/Teton County Comp Plan, because it’s impartial. “It’s one of the geniuses of the comp [comprehensive] plan,” he said. “We can always ask the question, ‘will this decision move us closer to our goal, or further away?”

And that, Councilman Don Frank said, is precisely what the town council does. Frank estimated that Teton County now houses about 59 percent of its workforce — just six percent under the goal. That’s approximately 2,700 units, or $1.2 billion worth. The Housing Action Plan estimated that the town would have to build 200 deed-restricted units per year to catch up with its workforce.

But Frank says deed restricted

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he clock is ticking for Joe Rice’s 90-unit apartment complex on 550 W. Broadway, known as Sagebrush Apartments. Town councilors moved to continue a vote to approve the Planned Unit Development (PUD) and sketch plan to a special June 27 meeting, despite Councilman Don Frank’s objections that people in need of housing don’t have time to wait. But some worry any new developments, no matter how dire the need, also come with consequence. New developments, Brian Siegfried said, are merely putting fingers in an overflowing dam. Real housing progress, he argued, requires a complete shift in the conversation, and it might require questioning how much growth Jackson can stand.

Siegfried, who was on the Housing Authority Board from 2013 until it was dissolved last year, says that housing is graphed on two axes: “units available, and people in the homes.” In other words, supply and demand. Housing conversations, he said, tend to focus solely on increasing the supply. But as long as demand continues to increase, the town is never going to catch up.

“We’re always talking about the number of homes, whether we have the right amount of roofs for people to be under,” Siegfried said. “The other question is do we have the right amount of workers? If we reduce the number of workers … the relationship would be more in line with the goal of housing 65 percent of the community.”

Any new development or housing solution, Siegfried said, still encourages growth. Housing 10 or 20 or 90 people in the short-term is great for those people—but how many new people does it invite? And how many jobs does it create for other people who will inevitably need housing? “If we approve that, or anything, we should also be talking about how many more workers can be invited,” he said.

Siegfried said he is not anti-growth, nor is he against solutions that put roofs over people’s heads. But conversations about housing, he said, should be driven by numbers.

“We need to have non-emotional, fact-based data-driven conversations about how this is all going to play out over the years,” he said. That was the idea behind the 2013 Employee Generation by Land Use Study, which explores the relationship between new development and need for affordable workforce housing. The Nexus study, as it is otherwise known, offers formulas to calculate that relationship precisely.

That, Siegfried said, is how all housing conversations should proceed. The numbers themselves can be debated, he said, “as long as we’re talking about the math and the actual variables on a non-emotional scale. Emotional arguments are distractions from the real issues, the real potential manifestations of these decisions.”

Siegfried has a term he wants to see catch on: housing neutrality. The idea, he explained, is that any potential development idea should be “scored on a housing neutrality score. Similar to how the US congress scores bills, it gives people on both sides of the debate a number developed by an unbiased formula.”

In other words, each new development should be assessed based on how many housing units it will provide versus how much need for housing it will create. The score should be just about even.

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THE BUZZ 3 Climate Defenders What citizens are doing, what local government has done and what it still needs to do.

BY ROBYN VINCENT @TheNomadicHeart

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lthough Jackson Town Council members just signed a resolution to uphold the goals of the Paris agreement, one woman isn’t waiting for the ink to dry. On Saturday, Halina Boyd will host the first meeting of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby.

With 418 chapters worldwide, the non-partisan initiative is a grassroots effort to institute a carbon fee and dividend. This would tack a fee onto fossil fuels based on the amount of carbon they contain.

“We can do important, everyday things, but that’s not going to change the way the fossil fuel industry operates,” Boyd said.

“A carbon fee is a simple answer to a complex problem.”

Boyd is working with Bill Barron, regional coordinator for the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, whose members were in Washington DC this past week to influence lawmakers.

“It’s a revenue neutral approach,” Barron explained. “At the source, (like a mine, well or port), a price is assessed and that money is collected and placed in a pool and distributed back to households equally.”

Advocates say instituting a steadily rising fee on fossil fuels would level the playing field for all energy sources. It would also foster an informed populace, delivering people a true cost comparison of various fuels.

That the money would find its way back to its purchasers is also a selling point. All the net fees would be held in a trust and returned directly to people as a monthly dividend. Under CCL’s proposal, about two-thirds of households would break even or receive more than they would pay in higher prices.

Indeed, it’s a palatable notion even among conservatives that condemn government involvement in most public spheres. In fact, a group of senior Republican politicos met with the Trump administration in February to argue the

merits of a similar proposal.

While it may be a hard sell with the Trump administration, CCL’s non-partisan focus and use of civil dialogue seems to be working with some in Washington.

Notably, Congress. In 2016, CCL helped establish the first congressional climate caucus. Founded by Florida’s Reps. Carlos Curbelo–R, and Ted Deutch–D, the House Climate Solutions Caucus is comprised of 20 Democrats and 20 Republicans. Its members explore policy for the impacts, causes, and challenges of climate change.

People who attend the Jackson meeting will learn about key values of Citizens’ Climate Lobby and effective ways to get involved, like writing op-eds and letters to the editor, lobbying members of Congress, and attaining letters of support from prominent faith, business and community leaders.

For Boyd, a pro-snowboarder, it’s logical to take an interest in the health of the environment, something necessary for her to pursue her craft. She’s considered launching a local chapter of CCL since she met Barron two years ago at the Shift Festival. But her travels this past winter urged her to pull the trigger. That’s when she found herself in three mountain locales that all had one thing in common: unusual weather symptomatic of a changing climate.

In Jackson Hole, Boyd couldn’t snowboard at her home mountain after a fierce wind storm pulverized 17 steel electrical poles causing a widespread power outage.

This prompted Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s first multi-day closure since 1986. The massive temperature swings that followed flooded and froze the valley. Avalanche danger, meanwhile, rose to historic highs, roads were shut down, and a state of emergency was declared for Teton Village.

Then in Valdez, Alaska, she arrived in America’s snowiest town and noted a relatively dry place. What little snow had fallen in the mountains was swept away, Boyd said, by relentless winds that shut down the entire Chugach Mountain Range for three weeks. Conditions became so blustery and treacherous, in fact, “you couldn’t even walk outside.”

Boyd’s next stop was China’s Altai Mountain Range. There she spoke with villagers who lamented it had only snowed three times that winter in a place where cold temps and regular snowfall were once commonplace.

In China, Boyd said people were quick to acknowledge the cause of shrinking winters. “Even in these little remote villages that feel like you’ve stepped back

in time hundreds of years, the people are all talking about climate change with total acceptance,” Boyd said.

Climate change is indeed shifting weather patterns. Its effects are most noticeable in coastal areas where rising sea levels are flooding towns and cities, but also in mountainous places that depend on long winters for their economic and ecological livelihoods.

From the people to the politicos Now that Jackson has cemented itself among the list of hundreds of American cities, businesses and leaders vowing to uphold the goals of the Paris agreement, residents are wondering what happens next.

The accord says its central aim is to limit a global temperature rise this century to below 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). To be clear, such an effort involves a worldwide response, including from poor developing nations with the help and support of wealthy industrialized countries, like the United States. Because President Trump pulled out of the agreement, it’s now up to America’s towns, cities and states.

One of the directives of the town resolution is to create a climate action plan.

Jackson has some initiatives in place that could become components of such a plan.

For example, the town is committed to a “40 by 20 goal.” By the year 2020, it promises to increase energy efficiency and reduce waste and water usage in all town buildings and vehicles by 40 percent.

Still, Jackson lacks a cohesive climate blueprint, like those found in places such as Portland, Oregon (the first American city to enact a climate action plan) and Aspen, Colorado, which modeled its 2007 plan after Portland’s.

Aspen’s plan includes a climate change impacts assessment. Jackson, indeed, already has its own assessment, a 2015 privately commissioned study called The Coming Climate released by the Charture Institute. It is the first report to outline this area’s warming climate and the potential effects on the environment and the economy. The report could help inform a climate action plan in Jackson.

Another component to Aspen’s plan is

Halina Boyd in China.

education and advocacy. The key vehicle in Jackson for this is Energy Conservation Works, a nonprofit that works with the town and county, businesses and citizens to reduce carbon footprints, such as converting buildings and homes to their greatest level of energy efficiency.

But there remains an increasing need to inform the public. Many citizens, for example, are still unaware that Lower Valley Energy offers 100 percent renewable energy to all its customers for a 10 to 15 percent cost increase.

That millions of visitors pass through Jackson Hole each year also presents an opportunity to propagate strong messages of conservation to a global audience.

Phil Cameron of ECW says some efforts are underway now. “Walk to Home Ranch and the message about LEED certification is front and center,” he said. “We are looking for other opportunities to communicate that too. We started to develop videos about public projects and green power and homeowner initiatives.” But, he said it’s challenging to capture people when their attention span is “vacation like.”

Aspen’s plan also includes a monitoring mechanism to track its carbon emissions. The last time countywide greenhouse gas emissions were tracked here was in 2008. The results can be found in the report Jackson Hole Energy and Emissions Inventory.

Finally, a climate action plan would serve as a guiding document for all future policies proposed and developed in Jackson.

When asked about Jackson’s next steps, Mayor Pete Muldoon, who brought the Paris accord resolution before town council, acknowledged that crafting a climate action plan is critical. But he did not say when or how the town would proceed.

“Climate change has the potential for disastrous effects on our community, with grave social and economic impacts,” he said. “I will be discussing this with the council soon.” PJH

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Run, Meredith, Run From the Himalayas to the Tetons, one woman’s peaking path to glory.

By Jessica L. Flammang

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racing at seven. In high school, her father was her ski coach, and she raced in the alpine circuit until 18.

Always too skinny and too light, she struggled to fit in to the racing circuit. But her tenacity was unmistakable. It would lead her to become an internationally sponsored skyrunner.

Skyrunning, Edwards explained, is an extreme sport that combines mountaineering and running. The vertical gain normally exceeds 6,500 feet, and involves forging routes across meadows and over rock faces.

It is defined by altitude and technicality. In 1992, skyrunning became an alpine sport when Italian athlete Marino Giacometti organized the first competition from Courmayeur, Italy, to the summit of Mont Blanc, at 15,780 feet.

Two years ago, Edwards started running through the night in preparation for the world’s most extreme mountain marathon in Europe this September. The Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB) is a 106-mile race that begins and ends in Chamonix, and spans France, Italy and Switzerland. For Edwards, running and mountaineering have been a process, one that has included failure, redemption and healing.

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The mountains are calling Sponsored by La Sportiva, Camelbak, Bolle, and others, Edwards has raced across Europe, the Philippines, and China. But often, “it isn’t about the racing,” she said. “It’s about the delicate balancing act of breathing, endurance and conditioning.”

Edwards, 32, runs 75 miles at a time, summits and descends the Grand Teton in under six hours, and deadlifts 177 pounds. “Running gives me the self-confidence that I lacked growing up. It empowers me,” she said. “I started running because it was the only thing that made me feel safe and free.”

In college, the once meek endurance athlete took comfort in running cross-country while she studied exercise physiology at the University of Louisville. Still haunted by anxiety and worry, she crocheted and ran to calm her mind. “Running gave me a sense of equilibrium in my life,” she said. “There is something rhythmic about repetitive motion.”

Shortly after graduation, Edwards was called to the mountains. It was “the whole package” that attracted her to Jackson Hole, where she fast became one of the top endurance athletes in the game, finding her niche in the high alpine athletic circuit.

Her quick wit and determination got the attention of some of the top performing mountaineers in the Tetons, including Jacob Urban, Dave Wade, and her best adventure buddy, the iconic “Wild Bill” Bowen, who skied the technical S&S Couloir at the ripe age of 65. “Bill reminds me of the Mad Hatter,” Edwards said. “We’re very lucky that we have each other in this lifetime. It’s fun to embrace the ridiculous.”

Bowen, who splits his time between Alaska and Jackson, makes his home at Edwards’ place during the winter season. Like the Mad Hatter in Edwards’ favorite childhood tale, Alice in Wonderland, which lives in her

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t’s 10:15 p.m. and the sun has set on the Tetons.

Loose rocks crunch beneath Meredith Edwards’ running shoes. Armed with bear spray, her reflective jacket glows in the dark and her dreadlocks dance in the wind. While her co-workers at C-V Ranch in Wilson commuted to work by car, she commuted by foot, twice, logging 20 miles in the same day she worked a 10-hour shift. Some consider this sheer insanity, but for Edwards, it is just the norm.

A world-class ultra-runner and ski mountaineer, she laughs, “You have to maximize your day.” Guzzling her fourth glass of water, Edwards strips off her heart rate monitor and wireless headphones and logs her mileage and time. “Running helps me handle crisis management situations at work more effectively.” For nine years, she has worked at the residential treatment facility with disabled and emo­tion­ally dis­turbed youth from across Wyoming.

Life wasn’t always like this. Growing up in northeastern Pennsylvania, she suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), like many of the people she works with today. Edwards was constantly worried as a child. By fourth grade, her angst gave her an ulcer.

Running was her release. To escape, she began running on her family’s 30-acre property. “I became enthralled with the rhythmic beat of my feet hitting the ground,” she said. “I ran away from the pressures of life, the thoughts in my head, sometimes from myself.

People thought I had ADHD, but really it was anxiety.”

Edwards started skiing at the age of two and alpine

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imagination, Bowen lives in her oversized closet. “I admired the Mad Hatter for embracing his inner craziness,” she said. “Once I embraced mine, no one could offend me anymore.”

Still, she has struggles with people’s opinions of her.

“People think I am insane for running so much,” she said. “But I think it is wonderful. Running works for me.”

The tireless athlete enjoys coming home to see her version of the Mad Hatter, her roommate Bowen, and her eight-pound chihuahua/pug mix, Moe, whom she found on the side of the road in Alabama.

Edwards scooped up the tiny canine and ran the last six miles home with her in hand. “It was the only time I believed in love at first sight,” she said.

Moe lived out of a shoebox for her first months.

Not expected to survive, she is now 11 years old, and accompanies Edwards on her high intensity track workouts, to the gym, and on her threshold repeats up Snow King and Josie’s Ridge all before noon. On Edwards’ bigger vert days, where she shoots for 8,000 feet, including five times up the Glory bootpack during the winter, Moe runs alongside her for the final upward lap, and Edwards skis down with the chug in her jacket.

Then at noon, Edwards attends work meetings, sipping tea to rehydrate, simultaneously eating her daily allotment of avocado toast and soup. Fond of French baguettes from Persephone, the 103-pound ultra-runner consumes nearly double the average person’s intake per day.

When she was fresh to the Jackson endurance scene, Edwards bagged the Grand Teton without ropes on her first attempt alongside Wade, of Jackson Hole Ski Patrol, Jackson Hole Mountain Guides, and Alaska Mountaineering School. “A lot of people initially wrote her off because of her appearance and outlandish sense of humor,” Wade said. “I may have been the first to take her seriously as a high mountain athlete.”

Now a seasoned runner on the Grand, Edwards’ first five times up the peak were with Wade. “When given a chance to perform in a high-risk setting, she nailed it,” Wade said.

But the Grand has not been all glory. On her 25th birthday, Edwards tore all the ligaments in her ankle running down from the peak. The injury left her broken but not defeated. “I lost a lot of confidence,” she said.

But her tolerance for pain increased and she pushed on.

“I got really good at accepting failure. It’s a part of the process. My struggles have made me who I am. I just didn’t give up.”

Edwards climbed and descended the Grand Teton in just over five hours last August with local mentor Urban, instructor and trainer for the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education. The two athletes were joking about the unbelievable amount of “vert” in her upcoming UTMB. Urban equated it to a double summit on the Grand. Edwards said, “I don’t think anyone has ever done that in a day.”

Urban replied: “I don’t think anyone has been foolish enough to try it!” And the plan was born to conquer the 13,776-foot peak twice in 24 hours.

Edwards is also a student of skimo, [ski mountaineering racing], and ultra-running are alike. “I like to run skyrunning. Basically races that go up and down peaks, but that’s about the only thing they have in common,” she said. Skimo races are short, only about two hours.

Ultras are six to 24 hours.

“You need to have a high pain threshold for both, and be stubborn as hell.”

In 2015, Edwards came in 6th overall in the US Skyrunning Series, and claimed the new course record in the Clark-Miyamit Falls 60K in the Philippines.

The former Dynafit USA athlete has been on the US National Ski Mountaineering Team for four years, competed in two world championships, and raced in the World Cup. She took third at the 2013 US Nationals for Ski Mountaineering, and came in 25th in the World Championships Vertical Ski Mountaineering in 2015.

Trails of glory and defeat Edwards always imagined the impossible to be possible. In 2014, she raced on the International Skimo Tour in Europe. “Every race … the younger kids slayed me. The process was hard, but I got used to sucking,” she said.

She was alone in Italy when her heart rate balked and she landed in the hospital. Undeterred that she had no coach and no money, her willpower and determination lunged her forward. “Failure,” she said, “isn’t scary when you do it over and over again.”

Edwards arrived injured to the doorstep of worldclass running coach Eric Ortin shortly afterward. In just two years under his guidance, she placed 2nd out of 198 women in the Sur les Traces des Ducs de Savoie.

The race spanned 119 kilometers with a 7,200-meter elevation gain. Beginning in Courmayeur, Italy, where skyrunning originated, the course wound along the “Grande Randonnée” paths, crossing through the valleys of Mont-Blanc, Beaufort, Tarentaise and the Aosta.

Guided by the rays of her headlamp in rain, sleet, snow and wind, the interlaced trails were a maze, but the cadence of one foot in front of the other, her mantra, drove her on. Her old ankle injury resurfaced when a French competitor blazed past her on the final downhill.

That person won the race by just a few minutes.

During the hottest part of the day in the Alps, in 90-degree temps, Edwards climbed 5,000 feet out of a valley with no trees. The brutal course left her ill. But her performance earned her an automatic bid from the International Trail Ranking Association to the full UTMB, a single stage mountain marathon, with a distance gain of 9,600 meters. Again, failure transformed into opportunity.

“We ran in harsh weather through the night,” Edwards said. “Luckily, I am accustomed to those conditions living and training in the Tetons.” She aims to complete her first full UTMB in 26 hours, alongside an estimated 2,300 competitors.

Edwards calls her current training program “the road to UTMB,” the biggest ultra in the world. The race spans 170 kilometers with 10,000 meters of height gain.

“Three countries come together to put on a race. To run in an environment like that is really special,” she said.

“It’s like the Tour de France or the Super Bowl. It’s the pinnacle of mountain running.”

The course will test her mental and physical stamina, especially the downhill stretches, up to 4,000 feet at a time. To prep, she is working with strength trainer Chris Butler on strengthening the anterior and posterior compartments of her lower legs with exercises like deceleration lunges. For three years, Butler has worked alongside running coach Ortin. They train her in conjugated concurrent training, derived from the old Soviet sport science of power lifting. The back-to-back trainings are teaching her body to run on fatigued legs.

This season her training involves regular “tram repeats.” She runs 4,139 vertical feet at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, and rides the tram down, multiple times per day. “This is the strongest I have ever been, strength-to-weight ratio,” she said.

The full UTMB includes 33,000 feet of climbing. The last 100K, or 60 miles, have five 4,000-foot climbs. “I just have to keep moving,” Edwards said, echoing the Mad Hatter.

Two continents in 30 days In April, Edwards summited and skied the 18,491foot Pico de Orizaba volcano in Puebla, Mexico, the third-highest peak in North America. With Wade by her side, she integrated the high-altitude techniques he taught her: In the “rest step” position, she put most of her weight on her heel and skeletal system to relieve her muscles. Employing “pressure breathing,” or “pursed

Striking a balance Edwards’ mountaineering approach to life extends to the troubled teens she works with and the crisis situations she regularly manages. “It’s like being in the mountains, where things don’t go as planned,” she said.

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lip breathing,” she expelled as much carbon dioxide as possible on the exhale, enabling her body to instinctively inhale more oxygenated air.

“I have a goal to ski Denali, and push mountaineering to higher altitudes,” she said after Orizaba, a place she returned from with food poisoning and altitude sickness. “To live so passionately is hard, because you are always teetering between success and failure, so you really have to accept both.”

Less than two weeks after returning from Mexico, the Chinese government invited her to be one of 12 in the world to race the FKT Yuzhu Peak on the Tibetan Plateau. China’s largest trail community, XTrail, sponsored the 12K race. They were equipped with crampons and an ice axe, and fixed ropes for part of the course.

“They wanted to understand why we run,” Edwards said.

Reaching an altitude of 18,700 feet, Edwards was denied the true summit due to driving wind, but still placed 4th. “I had just done my first 5,000-meter peak, so I went for my first 6,000-meter peak.” However, she wasn’t completely charmed. “If I had to pick a purgatory,” she said, “the Tibetan plateau would be it. It is desolate and colorless. It’s a high-altitude highway of convoys.”

For Edwards, the mountains were not the only challenge during her trip. In Chinese airports, people took photos of her without permission, and reached out to pet her dreadlocks. After the race director physically picked her up several times, she decided to do the same to him. When he said, “Men up here, women down here,” she revealed her athletic dexterity, and lifted him high in the air saying, “I’ll do what I please.”

The day she departed it rained in Beijing, a rare occurrence. The highway quickly transformed into gridlock. Edwards and her teammates jumped out of the taxi, and ran down the highway with their bags, still missing their flight. With the extra time, she purchased a Chinese tea set in the airport, which she would soon use in Jackson Hole to celebrate with her beloved chug, Mad Hatter tea party style.

“Your only option is to solve the problem. It forces you to be creative and not overreact. You have to remember that hard times will pass. Everything ebbs and flows.”

She admits that balancing her work and training schedule is a challenge. “You could say I don’t do easy,” she said, laughing. “Life can knock you around and kick you down, but there is no other option than to keep going.” When you really want something, you make it work. Like the Mad Hatter said, ‘Sometimes, the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.’”

When she isn’t racing or training, Edwards skis in bikinis and dances on trail runs. “She has a lot of character,” Bowen said. “With all the pressure she is under, she does a great job keeping it light.”

In July, Jaybird Freedom Earbuds will release a series that explores why endurance athletes run that includes Edwards skyrunning. The release of the Yuzhu Peak documentary by One Eye Open Productions, a Seattle-based film production company, is slated for the fall on ESPN. “I think a lot of people are fearful of living their life to the fullest because you are putting so much on the line every day,” Edwards said. “When you are not afraid to fail, everything becomes limitless.” PJH

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n Dance & Fitness Classes 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307733-6398 n The Shadow Masters 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, 307-7336379 n Planet eARTh 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $55.00 $300.00, 307-733-6379 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Sci-Fi & Fantasy Writing Camp: Peggy Eddleman 10:00am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Ginormous Pop Art Food In 3D 10:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, 307-7336379 n Fables, Feathers & Fur 10:30am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-732-5417 n Vertical Harvest Tours 1:00pm, Vertical Harvest, 307-201-4452 n Summer Reading 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-7872201 n Tech Time 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-7872201 n Raptor Encounters 2:00pm, Teton Raptor Center, $15.00 - $18.00, 307-203-2551 n Library Summer Fun Movie Afternoon: “Trolls” 2:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-739-2246 n Photoshop Basics 3:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, 307-7336379 n Read to Rover 3:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-7872201 n Jackson Hole People’s Market 4:00pm, Base of Snow King, Free n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-739-5386 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 - $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-733-5386 n Hula Hoop for Beginners 5:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $60.00, 307-733-6398 n Dine to Music at the Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Dornans Chuckwagon, Free, 307-733-2415 n Barbara Trentham Life Drawing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-733-6379 n Open Studio Modeling: Figure Model 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-733-6379 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n Relief Printing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, 307-7336379

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MUSIC BOX Kooky Creatures Experimental pop band Animal Collective is unleashed on the valley.

BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch

W

hen it comes to making albums, experimentation in the studio is not a commonality among artists. Some songwriters write complete songs, then record the layers piece-by-piece or with a live band. For the four best friends that grew up making music together in what would become Animal Collective, studio magic and inspiration from tinkering is a process that remains the integral foundation.

After 15 years, 10 studio records and three live records, the love of sonic free form, electronic, gospel, hip-hop, soul, and pop comes across in a singular batch of pleasing, completely scary, and confusing melting pots. Maybe that’s the reason behind the band’s Facebook statement, “don’t be surprised if you come to see us and it’s not what you thought it would be, and try not to get too upset.”

The band is comprised of Noah Lennox (who also creates music under the moniker Panda Bear), Dave Portner (Avey Tare), Brian Weitz (Geologist) and Josh Dibb (Deakin). After playing music together while growing up in Baltimore, Lennox, Portner and Weitz all wound up in Manhattan in the early 2000s playing alongside groups such as Black Dice while the burgeoning garage rock scene that produced bands like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs was in full swing. In 2009, Animal Collective hit mainstream consciousness with the album Merriweather Post Pavilion, though they had already amassed a cult following.

Now hailing from Portugal, Washington DC,

Animal Collective

Brooklyn, and Owings Mills, Maryland, the foursome of Grateful Dead fans also infuses field recordings into their music. Most recently, the band traveled to Brazil, soaking up local music and the acoustics of the rainforest. They also recorded the entire new EP there, Meeting of the Waters.

“It’s more stuff outside of music that gets us going one direction or another and often there’s like a whole bunch of things thrown out in the beginning,” Lennox recently told C-Ville Weekly. “There can be a slightly different method depending upon how much we see each other, how close we are geographically to each other.”

Opening the show is L.A./Seattle duo Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kand, bringing a mesmerizing and experimentally dramatic approach to viola and voice.

Animal Collective with Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kand, 9 p.m. Tuesday, June 27 at the Pink Garter

Theatre. $32 to $82. PinkGarterTheatre.com.

MOM’s Dirty party

Music on Main opens its 12th year in a big, gritty, honest way. That’s really all you need to know about Portland, Oregon, septet Dirty Revival, which kicks off the eight-date Music on Main concert series in Victor City Park.

The ensemble of high school buddies brings the fire of Aretha Franklin, the funk of Stevie Wonder, the power of Earth Wind and Fire, and the soul of Rose Royce.

Opening the night is the six-piece iteration of Canyon Kids, slated to release a new recording this summer. Upcoming shows in the outdoor summer series include Hot Buttered Rum June 29; Driftwood July 6; Main Squeeze July 13; Andy Frasco and the UN July 20; Kris Lager Band July 27 and The Motet

WEDNESDAY World’s Finest (Town Square Tavern) THURSDAY Dirty Revival & Canyon Kids (Victor City Park); Midnight River Choir (Town Square Tavern) FRIDAY Liver Down the River (Knotty Pine); Rude Noodle (The Bird); The Sweet Lillies (Town Square Tavern) SATURDAY Flowbots (Knotty Pine); Vinyl Brunch & Vinyl Record Sale (JH Still Works); Triggers & Slips (Silver Dollar)

Dirty Revival

August 3. Closing MOM on August 10 is Turnpike Troubadours.

Teton Valley Foundation presents Music on Main with Dirty Revival and Canyon Kids, 6 to 10 p.m.

Thursday, June 22 at Victor City Park. Free, all-ages.

TetonValleyFoundation.org.

Vinyl brunch spins right round It’s another way to connect to your musical kinfolk, another way to break out of the digital cycle.

Gather with wax connoisseurs at the 2nd annual Vinyl Brunch & Vinyl Record Sale, where three outof-town bulk vinyl sellers have been headhunted by organizer and Contour Music Festival co-founder Matt Donovan.

Individual swappers and sellers are also invited to participate. Host Jackson Hole Still Works will have a bloody mary bar and other selections of its spirits

available, as well as live deejays on two turntables, and yard games. For more information about selling vinyl at the event, contact Donovan at matthewdonovan3@gmail.com or 970-420-7762.

Second annual vinyl brunch & vinyl record sale, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 24 at Jackson Hole Still Works. Free. PJH Aaron Davis is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, member of Screen Door Porch and Boondocks, audio engineer at Three Hearted Studio, founder/host of Songwriter’s Alley, and co-founder of The WYOmericana Caravan.

SUNDAY Stagecoach Band (Stagecoach); Open Mic (Pinky G’s) MONDAY Isaac Hayden (Mangy Moose) TUESDAY Animal Collective with Eyvind Kang & Jessika Kenney (Pink Garter Theatre)

n Creating Confident Communicators 6:30pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n The HOF BAND plays POLKA! 7:00pm, The Alpenhof Bistro, Free, 307-733-3242 n Art Opening: Impressions of the West by John Springer 7:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-7331500 n An Evening with Elizabeth Smart 7:00pm, The Center Theater & Lobby, $45.00 - $150.00, 307-733-4900 n Screen Door Porch 7:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307733-4913 n Jackson Hole Rodeo 8:00pm, Teton County Fairgrounds,

$15.00 - $35.00, 307-733-7927 n KHOL Presents: Vinyl Night 8:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-7331500 n Karaoke Night 9:00pm, The Virginian Saloon, 307-733-2792 n Dan Conklin & The Regulators 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207 n Summer Solstice Party w World’s Finest 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, $5.00, 307-733-3886

THURSDAY, JUNE 22

n Dance & Fitness Classes 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398

n The Shadow Masters 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, 307-733-6379 n Community Volunteer Day 9:00am, Grand Teton National Park, Free, 307-739-3379 n Planet eARTh 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $55.00 - $300.00, 307-7336379 n Jackson Hole Writers Conference 10:00am, Center for the Arts, $410.00, 307-413-3332 n Ginormous Pop Art Food In 3D 10:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, 307-733-6379 n Teton Mudpot Summer Ceramics Sale 10:00am, The Center for the Arts

Parking Lot, Free, 307-733-6379 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-6379 n Storytime 10:30am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-6379 n Storytime 11:00am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-6379 n Teton Youth & Family Services 20th Annual Golf Benefit 12:00pm, Jackson Hole Golf and Tennis, $250.00, 307-733-6440 n Raptor Encounters 2:00pm, Teton Raptor Center, $15.00 - $18.00, 307-203-2551 n Library Summer Fun Craft: Fleece Tie Pillows & Blankets 2:00pm, Teton County Library, Free,

307-733-2164 n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-739-2246 n Photoshop Basics 3:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, 307-733-6379 n Girls Who Tech 3:30pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Writer’s Club 3:30pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-739-5386 n REFIT® 5:15pm, First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539 n Bar J Chuckwagon

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n The Art of Creative Journaling 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, 307-733-6379 n Disc Golf Doubles 6:00pm, Teton Village, $5.00, 614506-7275 n Introductory, Conversational Spanish 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $110.00, 307-733-7425 n Ruff Readers 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Solstice Wine Dinner 6:00pm, The Silver Dollar Bar & Grill, $129.00, 307-732-3939 n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 - $68.90, 307733-6994

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CREATIVE PEAKS Expressive Unity JEFFREY KAPHAN

Local poet’s show stitches together words, imagery and inclusivity.

BY KELSEY DAYTON @Kelsey_Dayton

I

n 2011, poet Robert Pinsky spoke in Jackson Hole about how a poem is truly created in the ear of the person who hears it. Sitting in the audience, local poet Matt Daly couldn’t stop thinking about the relationship between the author and the reader.

Daly thought about poems that resonated with him every time he read them, and the ones that had a powerful impact on his life in a certain moment, but that a year later weren’t as meaningful. He thought about how much of a poem’s power came from the reader’s experience.

He ruminated on the idea of how poems are created and the role of the reader and “O! How we play” was born.

The exhibition brings together stanzas created by multiple poets. Pieces of visual art that use the same words in different orders create unique poems and viewer experiences.

Sheryl Haft, Cassandra Lee, Beverly Leys, Susan Marsh, Susan Scarlata, Jocelyn Slack and Connie Wieneke all contributed stanzas to the exhibition.

Daly gave them some loose parameters on constructing the stanzas so that they could be combined and work in any order.

As this country grapples with divisive politics, Daly wanted to explore something that brings people together.

The theme “O! How we play,” is an effort to appeal and connect with every corner of the community.

“We’re just a community that likes to play outside in lots of different ways … [this] is shared across a lot of demographics that don’t share a lot otherwise,” Daly said.

He also wanted to create an exhibition that was interactive and playful and encouraged people to engage with the poems.

Daly selected nine stanzas from those submitted, choosing the most evocative without thinking about how

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From the new exhibit ‘O! How we play.’

they would fit together. He then created nine different works using the stanzas. Daly created the pieces specifically for the theater gallery space, thinking about how people move throughout it and the best way they could engage with the works. This includes audio, video, three-dimensional and two-dimensional pieces. Each piece uses the text in a different order and way.

One piece uses nine panels, each with a stanza, but four stanzas are written backwards and must be read in a mirror. The effect is a sense of never quite knowing where the poem begins or ends, Daly said.

Another piece projects the words in a video. Daly used a random number generator to shuffle the stanzas across the screen.

A large sheet of paper has the poems printed in what seems like a jumble, but with random words highlighted. Daly’s also woven in “secret messages” in the show. You can decode the messages in one piece where a word occasionally appears in red. Put the red words together to uncover the message.

One piece uses Plexiglas and a flashlight. When the flashlight shines through the glass, the words are shadowed on the wall behind it. It’s a lighthearted piece that draws laughter from Daly. Across the hall is a large box with

the stanzas that makes the poem feel more weighted, he said.

While Daly had collaborated with artists and integrated different art forms together, this experience was totally new. It was particularly challenging for Daly to not compose a poem, but instead present the stanzas in a way that encouraged the viewers to create the poem. Daly channeled his need to create and compose into manufacturing the physical displays for the poems to avoid thinking about how the words were coming together until the piece was finished.

Daly was surprised at the amount of layers he discovered in the work when it was on display. He’s lived with the nine stanzas used for the exhibition for months, but still finds something different in them when he looks at the pieces in the gallery.

“The experience of reading them was very much an emotional experience,” he said, and “interacting with the treatment of the stanzas was its own emotional experience.” PJH The show hangs in the Theater Gallery at the Center for the Arts until July 31.

There is an opening reception 5:30 to 7 p.m. Friday, June 21 and an artist talk from noon to 1 p.m. July 6.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 24

n Mountain Man Triathlon 8:00am, Marge Grover Memorial Park, $60.00 - $180.00, 307-8855956 n Targhee Hill Climb - Wrun for Wray 8:00am, Grand Targhee Resort, $30.00 - $40.00, 800-TARGHEE n Dance & Fitness Classes 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n REFIT® 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-733-6398 n Jackson Hole Writers Conference 9:00am, Center for the Arts, $410.00, 307-413-3332 n Women’s MTB Camp with Pro Rider Amanda Carey - Level 1 9:00am, Grand Targhee Resort, $275.00, 800-TARGHEE n Exploratory Nature Photography in Grand Teton National Park 9:00am, Grand Teton National Park, 307-733-6379 n Running Wild 5K & 10K 9:30am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, $20.00 - $25.00, 307732-5445 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Alpine Mountain Days 10:00am, Town of Alpine, Free, 307-654-7757 n Library Saturdays: Mini Music & Movement 10:15am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-6379 n Teton Pass Bash 11:00am, Stagecoach, Free n Wild West Skateboard Contest Series 1:00pm, Jackson Skate Park, 307733-6433 n Vertical Harvest Tours 1:00pm, Vertical Harvest, 307-2014452 n Raptor Encounters 2:00pm, Teton Raptor Center, $15.00 - $18.00, 307-203-2551 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-739-5386 n Savor the South 5:00pm, Mead Ranch, $250.00 $5,000.00, 843-670-6062 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-733-5386

n Jackson Hole Juggernauts vs.

Bozeman 6:00pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $5.00 - $10.00, 307-6901982 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n Relief Printing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, 307-733-6379 n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 - $68.90, 307733-6994 n Triggers and Slips 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Flobots 8:00pm, Knotty Pine, 208-787-2866 n Salsa Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-7331500 n Live Music with Chanman Roots Band 10:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, Free, 307-733-1500 n Dan Conklin & The Regulators 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

SUNDAY, JUNE 25

n Women’s MTB Camp with Pro Rider Amanda Carey - Level 1 9:00am, Grand Targhee Resort, $275.00, 800-TARGHEE n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Alpine Mountain Days 10:00am, Town of Alpine, Free, 307-654-7757 n Summer Sunday Brunch 11:00am, Westbank Grill, 307-7325000 n Forging Metal, Body & Spirit: Yoga & Silversmith Workshop 1:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, 307-733-6379 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach, Free, 307733-4407 n Relief Printing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, 307-733-6379 n Jackson Six 7:00pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Hospitality Night 8:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-7331500

MONDAY, JUNE 26

n Dance & Fitness Classes 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Art About Our Universe 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, 307-733-6379

n Eurekus Eclipse Week 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, 307-733-6379 n Art Education: Kindercreations 9:30am, Art Association Borshell Children’s Studio, $16.00, 307-7336379 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Tickets Available for Page to the Podium: Sherman Alexie Online 12:00pm, Center for the Arts, 307733-2164 n Acrylic Painting Camp 1:00pm, Timber Ridge Academy, $100.00, 307-200-9564 n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-739-2246 n Maker 3:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-739-5386 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-733-5386 n Hootenanny 6:00pm, Dornan’s, Free, 307-7332415 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n Teton Photography Group: Photographing the Eclipse 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Relief Printing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, 307-733-6379 n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 - $68.90, 307733-6994 n Era of Mega Fires 6:30pm, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-739-5424 n Isaac Hayden 7:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307733-4913 n Dan Conklin & The Regulators 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

TUESDAY, JUNE 27

n Dance & Fitness Classes 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n REFIT® 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-733-6398 n Old Pass Road Wildflower Walk 8:30am, Old Pass Road Trailhead, $10.00, 307-739-9025 n Teton Plein Air Painters 9:00am, Outdoors, Free, 307-7336379

n Art About Our Universe 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, 307-733-6379 n Eurekus Eclipse Week 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, 307-733-6379 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307-7332164 n Historic Walking Tours 10:30am, Meet in the center of Town Square, Free, 307-733-9605 n Photography Open Studio 12:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-733-6379 n Acrylic Painting Camp 1:00pm, Timber Ridge Academy, $100.00, 307-200-9564 n Summer Reading 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-22201 n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-739-2246 n Tech Time 4:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Alive@ Five: Jackson Hole Historical Society 5:00pm, Teton Village Commons, Free, 307-733-5898 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-733-5386 n Dine to Music at the Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Dornans Chuckwagon, Free, 307-733-2415 n Teton Trail Runners Run 6:00pm, Different Location Each Week, Free n Hoback Group MTN Bike Ride 6:00pm, Hoback Sports, 307-7335335 n Advanced Photography Techniques 6:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $65.00 - $78.00, 307-733-6379 n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 - $68.90, 307733-6994 n Bluegrass Tuesdays with One Ton Pig 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Stackhouse 7:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307733-4913 n Animal Collective 9:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $32.00 - $82.00, 307-733-1500 n Dan Conklin & The Regulators 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

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$15.00 - $18.00, 307-203-2551 n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-739-2246 n Read to Rover 3:30pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n FREE Friday Tasting 4:00pm, Jackson Whole Grocer & Cafe, Free, 307-733-0450 n Friday Tastings 4:00pm, The Liquor Store, Free, 307-733-4466 n Library Summer Fun: Tween Foodie Friday 4:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Game Night 4:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-739-5386 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-733-5386 n Relay for Life 5:30pm, Snow King Ball Park, 503936-1630 n Soundcheck Summer Music Series 5:30pm, American Legion Park in Pinedale, Free, 307-367-7322 n Matt Daly, O! How We Play 5:30pm, The Center Theater Gallery, Free, 307-733-4900 n Spirit of Wyoming: Voting Party 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, 307-733-6379 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n Relief Printing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, 307-733-6379 n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 - $68.90, 307733-6994 n Triggers and Slips 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Country Western Social Dance 7:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $25.00 - $90.00, 307-733-6398 n Ian McIver 7:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307733-4913 n Liver Down the River 8:00pm, Knotty Pine, $5.00, 208787-2866 n Free Public Stargazing Programs 9:00pm, Rendezvous Park, Free, 1-844-996-7827 n The Sweet Lilies 9:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886 n Dan Conklin & The Regulators

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CULTURE KLASH Untethered Exercises Dual immersion program’s play spotlights emerging social justice warriors.

BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt

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uring the dress rehearsal for Jackson Hole Middle School’s sixth grade dual immersion program play, language arts teacher Michelle Rooks wasn’t convinced the show would come together. Then a student named Miranda approached her to dispute one of her lines: “I keep messing up on this line because I think this conjunction is wrong,” Miranda said.

Miranda had only moved to Jackson Hole a year ago. English was still a new language for her. Rooks wondered what she meant.

“The line is, ‘It’s hard here, but I can’t go back,’” Miranda continued. Instead she wanted it to say, “It’s hard here, and I can’t go back.”

The “and,” she explained, added another layer to what makes life as an immigrant so difficult—the fact that immigrants can’t return to the place they once called home.

And that, Rooks says, is part of what made the play, Bridges, Barriers and Borders/Puentes, Paredes y Fronteras such an effective learning tool.

“When I really think about what worked so well, spending a week reading the same lines [repeatedly] … doing this play forces us to slow down, and re-read things and talk about it again and again; have [the students] actually visualize what they’re reading.”

“The point of the project was more than a play,” echoed Spanish teacher Ann Mertaugh. “It was about cooperation.”

The play was the culmination of a unit called “The American Dream,” which asked students to question, “what’s the promise of the American dream” and consider that such a promise might not be accessible to everybody.

“The argument was how do we end discrimination, what do we have to do?”

Rooks said.

Students chose one type of discrimination that they had either experienced directly, or witnessed firsthand, and

Student artwork created for the play ‘Bridges, Barriers and Borders/Puentes, Paredes y Fronteras.’

wrote a series of three essays about it: one explanatory, one narrative, and one argumentative. Once the essays were complete, Karin Wadly picked each essay apart, pulled lines from them and reassembled the works into a full-length production. The final product was 33 pages.

The play was supported in part by the Art Association’s “Art in Translation” program and pARTners, who also helped the students create posters and protest art.

Sydney Smith described the entire project as being like a donut (she loves cooking, so most of her analogies are related to food). The facts and the research were the ingredients. Students mixed those facts together to create a dough, or understanding. They baked them into essay form. And the play was the glaze on top.

For her essays, Smith chose to write about sexism. “I’m the only girl at indoor soccer,” she said after the play, still basking in her 15 minutes (or 60) of fame.

Before the unit, she had perhaps considered discrimination, especially in sports, but she lacked the language to talk about it. And she learned about other types of discrimination, too.

While “Art in Translation,” the Art Association program that partnered with the school’s dual immersion program, focused on immigration, Rooks found that a lot of her students chose to write about disability.

One of her students had a revelation during the unit: “I used to think I was dumb,” Rooks recalled him saying. “And

now I understand this thing. I know it’s my disability, not that I’m dumb.”

The play was broken up into 12 scenes, each choreographed to represent physical barriers, bridges and borders, as the title suggests. In narratives about border crossings and immigrant hardships, students lined up to form a physical border in the center of the stage, and split off as each student read a line that served to literally break down barriers.

“Walls aren’t real. Walls are what we build in our minds,” one student read.

“Shouldn’t children of immigrants have a say in what is said?” questioned another. “Maybe it could be a bridge, not a border.”

One scene, “People not Numbers,” asked the audience to listen as students rattled of statistics: white women make 80 percent what men do; African American women just 63 percent; 66 percent of women face abuse in their lifetimes; 368 people died crossing the border last year.

“Eso no está bien!” (this is not OK) students chanted in unison. Then, “Somos personas [we are people], not numbers.”

That the students wrote the play themselves, and based it on personal stories, required a level of empathy and understanding that might have otherwise been lacking, Rooks said. “This is somebody’s story who’s in here,” she told the students during rehearsal. “Show a little respect.” And they did.

By the time they were called to stage last Tuesday night, each student read their lines with authority and dignity,

even if they fumbled through some.

Whether the students take these lessons home with them is another story, but Rooks is hopeful. Art, she said, is a powerful way to explore heavy topics. “If we can continue to give kids opportunities to write about things and explore things,” Rooks said, they will continue to learn.

But it will require patience.

Sometimes, learning about justice and discrimination requires unlearning a lifetime of cultural influence and understanding.

Kids are overwhelmed with conflicting messaging at home, in the media, and at school. Often, they don’t understand when something is wrong.

“As a culture, we’re confusing,” Rooks said. “I often jump to the assumption that they know it’s wrong and say it anyway, versus, ‘he doesn’t know what that means and we need to teach him.’”

Students and teachers alike must understand that the process of learning, and unlearning, isn’t always going to be perfect. Both parties will make mistakes.

The important thing is that they keep going.

“Words are powerful when we know that we either stand up against them, or for them,” Rooks said.

Indeed, after 12 scenes exploring the type of language that holds people back, the play ended with a question: “What is the language that allows people to fly?”

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Riesling Reverence Notes on the world’s most disrespected wine.

BY TED SCHEFFLER

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iesling gets a bad rap—even at my house. My wife (sorry, honey) inevitably says about Riesling, “I don’t like sweet wines.” And that, indeed, is the rap on Riesling. But it’s downright unjust. Yes, there are sweet styles of Riesling, but there are also bonedry (not sweet) versions. And, to my mind, Riesling is just about the most versatile wine to drink with food that there is. So why are so few people drinking it?

Well, Chardonnay, for starters. Chardonnay bullies Riesling around. It’s an all-too-easy wine to love. It’s not too dry, and it tends

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to be a bit on the sweet side. Moreover, lots of people embrace the vanilla and oak flavors that are typical of California Chardonnays. But in my opinion, all of those traits make Chardonnay a really good wine to sip before dinner, not during.

Now, I’m a proponent, in the main, of drinking your favorite wine with meals and damn the rules. But the truth is that Chardonnay—especially the heavily oaked California variety—clashes horribly with most food. There is nothing subtle about those big, bombastic California wines, and they tend to overpower the taste buds with oak.

Riesling, on the other hand, is an extremely agile wine for food; it plays well with everything from a simple roasted chicken or pasta with creamy sauce to spicy Asian foods and sushi. So, before you dismiss Riesling, spend a little time getting to know it. Riesling ranges from very dry to very sweet, and telling one from another is not always so easy. So here’s a tip: When choosing a Riesling

to drink with a meal, if you’re looking at German Rieslings (where the best are made) look for the word trocken on the label. Trocken means “dry.” Also look for the word “dry” on labels of Riesling made in America. Dry Riesling is most suitable with food.

The reason that Riesling is such a good choice for food matching is that the Riesling grape has a sugar-acid balance that you rarely find in other varietals.

And because it’s relatively low in alcohol, Riesling leaves room for food—it’s typically light-bodied and refreshing. But although light-bodied, it’s also loaded with fruit. The flavor of green apples, citrus, peaches and grapefruit are often noted in Riesling. But it’s the acid balance in Riesling that makes it such a great choice for a wide range of foods. It’s acidic enough to cut through a creamy Alfredo sauce like a warm knife through butter (remember that acid in a wine helps cut through fat). Although I wouldn’t

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Another reason to love Riesling is its price. A good bottle of Riesling from Germany, Alsace, Washington, Oregon or New York will cost you a fraction of what a fancy bottle of Chardonnay will set you back. Most are under $20 and there are plenty of good ones in the $10-$15 range.

Some of the domestic Rieslings I’d recommend include Chateau Ste. Michelle Eroica ($21), Pacific Rim Dry Riesling ($9), Snake River Riesling ($9), Willamette Valley Vineyard Riesling ($10), Trefethen Dry Riesling ($21), Dr. Konstantin Frank Riesling ($18) and Chehalem Dry Riesling ($20).

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Local, a modern American steakhouse and bar, is located on Jackson’s historic town square.

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Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally fresh food at reasonable prices, is a always a fun place to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel right at home and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit. Teton Village, (307) 733-4913, mangymoose.com.

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41 Review using stars 43 In __ of 44 Glob 45 Punk rock icon Smith 46 Poetic measure 47 Trac II cousin 48 Like Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 49 Jamie Lee Curtis or Fay Wray 52 Steamed state 53 “Blue Sky” Oscar winner 55 Bun contents 56 Wish undone 57 Executed 59 Legend in one’s own mind 60 Port of 79-Down 61 Brat’s output 63 What some wallow in 66 Give up the single life 67 Prepared for a selfie 69 Dana of “Body of Proof” 70 Smooching on the bus, for short 73 Some studios 75 Titles of respect 76 Bath buggy 77 Lidocaine brand 80 Sch. with a Harrisburg campus 81 Summer in Provence

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he sun has many layers of importance. Some are familiar, others are more spiritual, and one is truly cosmic.

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Familiar The summer solstice, which happens in the northern hemisphere Wednesday, June 21, is when the position of the sun brings the northern hemisphere the longest day and the shortest night of the year. The sun’s life-giving energy relationship to the earth is always, and in all ways, of paramount importance. Solstices and equinoxes mark the beginning of each of the four seasons, and from now on daylight decreases. The celebrations of the summer solstice honor the brief and exquisite moment of experiencing the fullest light.

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From this perspective, each solstice and equinox corresponds to the phases in a person’s spiritual path to enlightenment. The sequence begins gestating in the womb of winter (the void), continues to rebirth in spring, peaks with the full flowering of consciousness/ enlightenment in the summer, celebrates the blazing glory of the autumnal harvest, and then the cycle repeats. The beauty of the never-ending cycle is that we have so many opportunities to begin afresh and evolve to our fullest potential in body, mind and spirit.

We are participating in an evolutionary journey to fully source, embody, radiate and live the spiritual light who we are.

As above so below, the macrocosm reflects the microcosm. It is the operating principle that everything in creation, from galaxies and solar systems to atoms and a single cell, all reflect the same design and all function in similar ways.

From this perspective, the outer sun also corresponds to the inner sun, which in the human experience is the heart.

World traditions concur that only the heart can know the “Truth.”

By now science concurs, and has demonstrated that the human heart is our “command central” as our connection to the soul and to the greater cosmos all the way to “Source.”

Some of the original yoga teachings consider that the sun is to the human heart as the moon is to the brain. Why? The sun is the source of its own light. The moon can reflect the light of the sun, but does not generate light on its own.

The heart accesses unconditional love and higher intelligence; the higher purpose of the brain is to be in service to the greater light of the heart. As further affirmation of this truth, every sun salutation in yoga begins and ends with the hands at the heart.

The sun’s journey ushering in the four seasons is also thought of as a symbol of the journey to enlightenment.

This is a truly cosmic connection to the sun for your mind expansion. Many world traditions—including ancient Egyptian, Incan and Hopi—say that thousands and thousands of years ago great teachers came to Earth from the Sun and taught humanity about mathematics, written language, astronomy, architecture, medicine, agriculture, and more. There are startling archaeological artifacts from more than one ancient civilization depicting extraterrestrial space ships entering the sun through a triangular hole.

(Find a Mayan example of this kind of carving online.)

About four years ago, NASA released information about a magnetic portal called flux transfer, which is a regularly occurring actual portal to our sun. Described as something like a magnetic super highway, it can send matter through the sun, allowing it to travel massive distances through space. There is also video footage on Youtube showing the phenomenon of objects entering and leaving our sun.

(Google UFOs through Sun Portal.)

Corey Goode, secret space program whistleblower, reports that under the right conditions, these naturally occurring portals can be used as star gates, where extraterrestrials can enter and leave our solar system. He implies this has been going on for eons, and continues now. He describes the solar star gate system as something of a cosmic web connecting all suns and galaxies, making intergalactic travel across huge distances possible.

Seems like all indications are adding up, making these ancient stories seem true. Advanced beings really could have traveled here via hyper dimensional portals from the stars through the sun. Perhaps extraterrestrials are still coming here. Maybe we are already able to travel to them, too.

However you choose to enjoy this special time of our year, I wish you a happy summer solstice. PJH

Carol Mann is a longtime Jackson resident, radio personality, former Grand Targhee Resort owner, author, and clairvoyant. Got a Cosmic Question? Email carol@yourcosmiccafe.com

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og Island Mayor Ndogo Uume stirred controversy when he removed 2107 Penthouse Playmate of the Year pinup from the Hog Island Town Council Chamber and replaced it with 2016 Playmate Kenna James. Traditionally the current year’s pet is honored in council chambers, though no one remembers when that tradition began. The mayor said that he did not find this year’s playmate particularly attractive and she was not worthy of the honor.

Uume released a statement on Sunday explaining his decision.

“Playmate Jenna Sativa is a brunette and, as everybody is well aware, I prefer blondes like Ms. James. Brunettes can be extremely divisive figures,” Uume noted. “While I understand some residents like brunettes, the town is not ethically obliged to display them. When Hog Island decides to honor brunettes, it is taking sides against some of its residents.”

One of Uume’s critics, Paul Votealot, disagreed. “Any girl who takes her clothes off is worthy of respect,” he said.

“This is a non-partisan issue.”

But not all agree with Votealot.

Councilman Jim Standfornot said, “Everyone knows that blondes are more fun. We should be able to show up to work on town business without having to see the snarling mug of some brunette.”

Many refused to be placated by Standfornot or Uume. Joe, a regular guy, demanded a recall election. “In December, we had a playmate from Texas,” he said. “She stated in her personality profile that she was a damn Dallas Cowboys fan. Talk about offensive! Yet nobody saw fit to remove that photo.”

Uume responded to Joe’s criticism saying he did not, nor does anybody he knows actually read the personality profiles of the Penthouse playmates.

“This is not a decision based on a literary profile,” he said, “but one based upon physical dimensions, hair color and other attributes that are deemed respectable. Brunettes, no matter how attractive, do not represent our values.”

Several of the trailer park’s more progressive women saw the controversy as an opportunity to engage in a larger conversation. “With the horde of pot guts, baldheads and tobacco stained teeth wandering around the trailer court, why not hang a picture of a ripped man with a six-pack belly, big biceps, strong legs, and a smile that includes all his teeth?” one woman asked.

The idea was shot down as everyone knows men who look like that don’t consume the USDA’s daily recommended 3Bs—bacon, biscuits and beer. This promotes a body type that is not only unhealthy but also unrealistic.

One of Uume’s detractors said that while he also likes blondes, removing the brunette playmate is unproductive, divisive, and seen as disrespectful by many. “All that controversy and what does it do to help address the issues facing Hog Island? The mayor is going to have to work with all segments of our community, blondes, brunettes, maybe even a redhead or two. It was a petty, childish, immature and selfish act.”

Uume responded, “Petty, childish, immature and selfish? Maybe I should run for president.” PJH

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Now that you’ve mostly paid off one of your debts to the past, you can go window-shopping for the future’s best offers. You’re finally ready to leave behind a power spot you’ve outgrown and launch your quest to discover fresh power spots. So bid farewell to lost causes and ghostly temptations, Cancerian. Slip away from attachments to traditions that longer move you and the deadweight of your original family’s expectations. Soon you’ll be empty and light and free—and ready to make a vigorous first impression when you encounter potential allies in the frontier.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) I suspect you will soon have an up-close and personal encounter with some form of lightning. To ensure it’s not a literal bolt shooting down out of a thundercloud, please refrain from taking long romantic strolls with yourself during a storm. Also, forgo any temptation you may have to stick your finger in electrical sockets. What I’m envisioning is a type of lightning that will give you a healthy metaphorical jolt. If any of your creative circuits are sluggish, it will jumpstart them. If you need to wake up from a dreamy delusion, the lovable lightning will give you just the right salutary shock.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Signing up to read at the open mike segment of a poetry slam? Buying an outfit that’s a departure from the style you’ve cultivated for years? Getting dance lessons or a past-life reading or instructions on how to hang-glide?

Hopping on a jet for a spontaneous getaway to an exotic hotspot? I approve of actions like those, Virgo. In fact, I won’t mind if you at least temporarily abandon at least 30 percent of your inhibitions.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) I don’t know what marketing specialists are predicting about color trends for the general population, but my astrological analysis has discerned the most evocative colors for you Libras. Electric mud is one. It’s a scintillating mocha hue. Visualize silver-blue sparkles emerging from moist dirt tones. Earthy and dynamic! Cybernatural is another special color for you. Picture sheaves of ripe wheat blended with the hue you see when you close your eyes after staring into a computer monitor for hours.

Organic and glimmering! Your third pigment of power is pastel adrenaline: a mix of dried apricot and the shadowy brightness that flows across your nerve synapses when you’re taking aggressive practical measures to convert your dreams into realities. Delicious and dazzling!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars,” writes Jack Gilbert in his poem “Tear It Down.” He adds that “We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows.” I invite you to meditate on these ideas. By my calculations, it’s time to peel away the obvious secrets so you can penetrate to the richer secrets buried beneath. It’s time to dare a world-changing risk that is currently obscured by easy risks. It’s time to find your real life hidden inside the pretend one, to expedite the evolution of the authentic self that’s germinating in the darkness.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) I often ride my bike into the hills. The transition from the residential district to open spaces is a narrow dirt path surrounded by thick woods on one side and a steep descent on the other. Today as I approached this place there was a new sign on a post. It read “Do not enter: Active beehive forming in the middle of the path.” Indeed, I could see a swarm hovering around a tree branch that juts down low over the path. How to proceed? I might get stung if I did what I usually do. Instead, I dismounted from my bike and dragged it through the woods so I could join the path on the other side of the bees. Judging from the astrological omens, Aquarius, I suspect you may encounter a comparable interruption along a route that you regularly take.

Find a detour, even if it’s inconvenient.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) I bet you’ll be extra creative in the coming weeks. Cosmic rhythms are nudging you towards fresh thinking and imaginative innovation, whether they’re applied to your job, your relationships, your daily rhythm, or your chosen art form. To take maximum advantage of this provocative luck, seek out stimuli that will activate high-quality brainstorms. I understand that the composer André Grétry got inspired when he put his feet in ice water. Author Ben Johnson felt energized in the presence of a purring cat and by the aroma of orange peels. I like to hang out with people who are smarter than me. What works for you?

ARIES (March 21-April 19) There are places in the oceans where the sea floor cracks open and spreads apart from volcanic activity. This allows geothermally heated water to vent out from deep inside the earth. Scientists explored such a place in the otherwise frigid waters around Antarctica. They were elated to find a “riot of life” living there, including previously unknown species of crabs, starfish, sea anemones, and barnacles.

Judging from the astrological omens, Aries, I suspect that you will soon enjoy a metaphorically comparable eruption of warm vitality from the unfathomable depths. Will you welcome and make use of these raw blessings even if they are unfamiliar and odd?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

I’m reporting from the first annual Psychic Olympics in Los Angeles. For the past five days, I’ve competed against the world’s top mind-readers, dice-controllers, spirit whisperers, spoon-benders, angel-wrestlers, and stock market prognosticators. Thus far I have earned a silver medal in the category of channeling the spirits of dead celebrities. (Thanks, Frida Kahlo and Gertrude Stein!) I psychically foresee that I will also win a gold medal for most accurate fortune-telling. Here’s the prophecy that I predict will cinch my victory: “People born in the sign of Taurus will soon be at the pinnacle of their ability to get telepathically aligned with people who have things they want and need.”

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While reading Virginia Woolf, I found the perfect maxim for you to write on a slip of paper and carry around in your pocket or wallet or underwear: “Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.” In the coming weeks, dear Gemini, I hope you keep this counsel simmering constantly in the back of your mind. It will protect you from the CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) dreaminess and superstition of people around you. It When I was four years old, I loved to use crayons to draw will guarantee that you’ll never overlook potent little diagrams of the solar system. It seems I was already laying breakthroughs as you scan the horizon for phantom a foundation for my interest in astrology. How about you, miracles. And it will help you change what needs to be Capricorn? I invite you to explore your early formative changed slowly and surely, with minimum disruption.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Do you ever hide behind a wall of detached cynicism? Do you protect yourself with the armor of jaded coolness? If so, here’s my proposal: In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to escape those perverse forms of comfort and safety. Be brave enough to risk feeling the vulnerability of hopeful enthusiasm. Be sufficiently curious to handle the fluttery uncertainty that comes from exploring places you’re not familiar with and trying adventures you’re not totally skilled at.

memories. To aid the process, look at old photos and ask relatives what they remember. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that your past can show you new clues about what you might ultimately become. Potentials that were revealed when you were a wee tyke may be primed to develop more fully.

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